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Bangkok Post News (30/9/98)



News Headlines:

1): Burma says Karen allowed to use Thai soil to stage attack
2): No more aid to Burma, says Japan
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1): Burma says Karen allowed to use Thai soil to stage attack

Protest letter claims two civilians killed

Burma has sent a protest letter to Thailand accusing it of allowing Karen
rebels to use Thai soil to stage a recent military attack on its border
village in which two Burmese villagers were killed.
The protest letter, signed by Burma's local Thai-Burmese Border Committee
secretary Lt Tae Aung, was sent to Thailand's chairman Col Chayuti Boonparn
yesterday.
In the letter, Rangoon claimed Thai authorities had allowed Karen National
Union rebels to fire four rounds of heavy artillery from Thai soil in Tak's
Mae Ramat district on Burma's Kok Ko border village late Friday night.
Two Burmese civilians were killed in the attack, which also caused damage
to houses and crops, according to the protest letter.
 KNU force launched military attacks from the Thai side on Burmese bases
several times, but local Thai authorities failed to seriously suppress the
rebels despite requests by Burma, said the letter.
Burma has called on the Thai government to jointly uproot KNU forces.
Meanwhile, Col Surapong Yuenyao, chief of the Thai-Burmese coordinating
committee, denied the accusations that Thailand has supported KNU forces to
attack Burmese troops.

2): No more aid to Burma, says Japan

Washington 0 Japan's foreign minister, Massahiko Komura, has assured US
Secretary of State Madeleine Albright that Tokyo will not resume aid to
Burma any time soon, a senior US official said on Monday.
In New York on September 22, Mr Komura "made very clear ? there was
absolutely no more aid in the pipeline," Assistant Secretary of State for
Democracy, Human Rights, and Labour Gare Smith told a House panel. AFP


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